[Reader-list] The Empire Strikes Back

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Belgium has decided to drop the genocide law under pressure of the US. 
The genocide law made it possible for people to prosecute war criminals
from all over the world. 

The US didn't like this and threatened to move the NATO headquarters from
Belgium, after which the fresh Belgium parliament decided to drop te law 
(after having offered the US to change it several times already). People 
wanted to bring Bush, Rumsfeld and Franks to Belgium court. Sharon is also
happy the law has been dropped, since he was on the list of war criminals
also.

The new Belgium government decided to take parts of the genocide law in 
the regular Belgium law, basically rendering it useless for prosecution 
of war criminals, since Western countries are excluded, as are heads of
state and diplomats.


Empire - Belgium, 1-0.

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something
about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is
purely destructive. We've created life in our own image - Stephen Hawking
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